Services

Times

• 8h30 - Joel James
• 17h30 - Steve Colin

You can expect most of the other attendees to dress smart casual.

What about my children?

• A mother’s room is available for mothers and their breastfeeding infants. No men are allowed in the mother’s room.
• The back few rows are available for families with young children.

Sunday School & Bible Hour

• 10h30 – 11h30 (after the morning service and a tea break)
• Church Hall: Bible Hour (Adults)
• Admin Building: High School
• Admin Building: Grade 4-7
• Admin Building: Grade 1-3
• Admin Building: Preschool

Who We Are

The best way to introduce you to our church is to tell you about the church in Antioch (Acts 11-13) and highlight four of its characteristics that we strive to imitate. (A full brochure of our church is available here in PDF)

1. Evangelism (Acts 11:20-21) – People were saved in Antioch, not through professionals or programs, but through the faithfulness of ordinary believers. Grace Fellowship is a church where everyone shares the task of spreading the good news of Jesus Christ among their friends, family, and co-workers.
2. Training (Acts 11:26) – Jesus said, “Make disciples…teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you” (Matt 28:19-20). The church of Antioch did such a good job of teaching their members those things, their unbelieving friends wondered at their changed lives, and called them Christ-ians or Christ-followers. Like the church of Antioch, Grace Fellowship is a place where believers are trained through the teaching of the Word of God: all that Christ commanded us about doctrine and practice.
3. Serving (Acts 11:29) – The Antioch church was a church of servers, not sitters. At Grace Fellowship, we want to be a church of servers—Christians who joyfully and sacrificially contribute to the cement-hauling and bricklaying spiritual tasks of building the church of Jesus Christ.
4. Missions (Acts 13:2-3) – The church of Antioch was concerned with more than just strengthening their own church. Therefore, they sent out two of their elders, Paul and Barnabas, as church planters. In the same way, at Grace Fellowship we have dedicated ourselves to planting and strengthening Bible-teaching churches in Southern Africa.
   There are many great churches in the New Testament, however, the Antioch church in Acts 11-13 retains a special place in our hearts. We love its evangelism, training, serving and missions, and we have made those things our commitments at Grace Fellowship.

Our History

In 1992, Dr. John MacArthur of Grace Community Church, Los Angeles, toured South Africa, preaching in a number of different cities. At that time, various people approached Dr MacArthur and expressed interest in starting Bible-teaching churches in their own communities. In 1993, Grace Church sent a church planter to assist these people. With his help, Grace Fellowship Pretoria began holding services in September 1993, with seven people attending the first service. By July 1994, Grace Fellowship had grown to an attendance of about twenty-five. At that time, the church called Joel James, a graduate of The Master´s Seminary and intern at Grace Community Church, to be their pastor-teacher. Joel assumed the preaching and shepherding duties of Grace Fellowship in February 1995. The following decade saw Grace Fellowship’s attendance grow to about 200 on Sunday mornings. After many years of meeting in various school halls, Grace Fellowship moved into their own building in November, 2005.

Through God’s gracious enablement, Grace Fellowship has planted multiple churches (Sasolburg, Pretoria CBD, and Centurion) and are currently running various training programs to strengthen local churches across the country and continent.

Giving

If you would like to give to the ministry, here are the Grace Fellowship Pretoria bank details:

Name: Grace Fellowship Pretoria
Bank: Nedbank
Branch: Hatfield
Branch code: 160 245
Acc #: 1602 237 271

Use this account for:

• Grace Fellowship Pretoria
• Word of the Cross
• Grace School of Ministry
• Shepherds Conference

Payment References: If the payment is by EFT, or direct deposit, the intended purpose must be indicated. Use one of the following abbreviations, and your name (when required, e.g. for Word of the Cross purchases):

• Put “WOC” for Word of the Cross related monies.
• Put “GSM” for Grace School of Ministry related monies.
• Put “SC” for Shepherds’ Conference related monies.

Related Links

The following ministries form part of our heritage:

• Grace To You – Expository sermons by John MacArthur
• Grace Community Church, USA – The church that originally sent Joel James and provides many different resources for your edification
• The Master’s Seminary, USA – A seminary that focuses on equipping pastors for pastoral ministry with an emphasis on preaching
• Shepherds' Seminary Africa – A local seminary overseen by Grace Fellowship, Pretoria, Antioch Bible Church, and several other churches, that trains men at a masters level to be godly shepherds and skillful expository preachers
• Christ Seminary, Polokwane – A local seminary that focuses on equipping pastors for pastoral ministry with an emphasis on preaching

If you are looking for some of the books we use in our various ministries, we recommend you contact Good Neighbours / Augustine Bookroom.